Southeast England and East Anglia - Weather Chat

[Emz by the Thames]

Gust of 37 km/h here - noisy as hell and a few things blown over.

[Jax]

Silly mild here, and quite windy with some potent gusts at times. 13.9oC is amazing for the time of year.

[legrandefromage]

Lovely spring day - April called and asked for it back once we've finished with it.

[Paul]

We ought to get a scale made up of these wind speeds - a sort of Netweather beaufort scale using wheelie bins, door knockers and flying trampolines!

[Crepuscular Ray]

You forgot the "how-far-up-does-a-plastic-bag-fly?" measure for light winds.

Edited January 9, 2015 by Crepuscular Ray

[Paul]

This could work, just need photos of each measure when it's being blown about a bit, we can then put them on a page as a new scale

[lassie23]

We ought to get a scale made up of these wind speeds - a sort of Netweather beaufort scale using wheelie bins, door knockers and flying trampolines!

Door knockers 30mph, moving full wheelie bins 40mph + , flying trampolines 60mph+ ?

[Crepuscular Ray]

Garage roofs lifting off 70mph?

[Paul]

All sounds reasonable

[lassie23]

Garage roofs lifting off 70mph?

Tornado?

[Crepuscular Ray]

That's roof after roof lifting off in a line, followed by the appearance of several news teams' helicopters.

[Paul]

Hotly followed by a very excitable Paul Sherman!

[lassie23]

Well my door knocker is going off, anybody have any wind gust readings for London.

[Jo S]

My voddy bottle has blow over, then down the garden ,does that count 

[Crepuscular Ray]

How full was it?

[Jo S]

How full was it?

totally empty, i would never have a full one in the garden

[Captain Shortwave]

The wind is getting up here now. 15C and rising :O

[Meggy]

It seems I've started quite a discussion! none of the wheelie bins are more than one third full, but they have decided to congregate on the front lawn in a little huddle....

[saint]

Winds picked up here a fair bit!

[Jax]

Most bins here are secured in gardens at the moment, if it was collection day however I would expect some to be elsewhere than where they originally started.

 

Getting milder O.o temp has risen .3oC in the last hour.

[legrandefromage]

Its like a spring night out there! The air is so warm! 

 

As for windspeed, definitely a trouser flapper with moves to a distinct hair ruffler later, beer -  3 and rising.

[Captain Shortwave]

Tonight

Well most temperature predictions are already wrong

Generally around 14-17C out there at the moment, completely mad.

 

Gusty winds too (50-60 mph gusts in places).

Some light rain will move eastwards soon and then it will be dry until morning.

 

Will do the FAX charts in a bit. 

[alexisj9]

High so far here 11.5, windy.

[Daniel*]

Hurricane suistained winds gripping the SE grass is veering at a 45 degree angle god help us all. "its gettin' hot in here"... 15.8C & strengthing winds gusting between 20-30 mph, what next is in store...!

[geri2k]

Sorry if this seems a silly question, but is there a reason for the rise in temperature?